Consultant / Senior Consultant – Environment and Sustainability Governance Services

Job Description

Major duties and responsibilities

• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team across a range of industries to assist companies in better understand and develop solutions to respond to the complex and evolving policy, regulatory, and business environment risks and opportunities associated with ESG/Sustainability and Decarbonization.
• Supervise and enhance the analysis of corporate activities and provide recommendations related to enhance their sustainability/ESG strategy, methods, framework, and related tools to support clients in achieving their sustainability/ ESG objectives.
• Development of sustainability/ESG programs and related reporting, such as materiality assessments, peer benchmarking, stakeholder engagement, gap analysis, metric/KPI identification (in alignment with common sustainability/ESG reporting standards such as GRI), and the preparation of reporting (internal and external) materials.
• Supervise and coach engagement teams to perform fieldwork, including data collection, analysis, and work paper documentation; prepare, edit, and proofread narrative reports and presentations of observations and recommendations.
• Support team leads with client relationships, business development efforts, and drafting thought leadership, as well as internal collateral and pieces of training on sustainability and ESG topics; work closely, but independently, under the direction of Managers, Directors, and Partners.
• Review of relevant sustainability data (i.e. benchmarking, trends, regulatory developments). 
• Day to day management of projects, ensuring quality and liaising with internal and external stakeholders and manage budgets.
• Coach junior team members to develop new skills, monitor their performance, support their development and help manage their career growth.
• Ability to quickly learn concepts outside of your area of expertise.

Education requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree in ESG/Sustainability or equivalent studies.
• Understanding of the following concepts and frameworks preferred:
• Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
• Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)
• Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB)
• Sustainably Development Goals (SDGs)
• United Nations Global Compact (UNGC)
• Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) like ISO 1400, 45001.etc.
• Social Return on Investment (SROI) or equivalent
• Energy related standards like ISO 50001

Work experience requirements:

• 4-5 years of previous work experience 
• Experience with sustainability consulting is preferred.

Interpersonal skills

• Proactive and independent person, with an ability to initiate tasks independently.
• Researching skills- Identifies, documents and shares knowledge that might be useful to others. Demonstrates an inquisitive approach to understanding recent developments and trends in ESG/Sustainability.
• Excellent analytical skills- Identifies ways to analyze information and trends quickly and efficiently.
• Proficient problem solver- Suggests innovative and creative solutions to problems.
• Effective communicator- Is able to communicate both internally and externally in a clear and concise manner.
• Team player- Is willing and able to assist different team members on several tasks and demonstrates proactivity in doing so. 
• Adaptable – Is able to ‘hit the ground running’ and rapidly learn new skills and behaviors in response to changing circumstances and changing allocations of tasks. 
• Ability to coach, develop and lead the junior team.

Language skills: English and Arabic (preferred)